Posted on 28 October 2011. Tags: bureaucrats, government picking winners, research grants
By Neil Seeman Recently, a six-member panel released its long-awaited review of federal support to R&D, putting at issue the main debate among bureaucrats and academics over innovation in this country: Should the federal government continue to offer tax credits to R&D or should provincial governments and “innovation clusters” target industries that seem promising? Soon [...]
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Posted in Economy, Featured, Fiscal policy, General, Government Waste
Posted on 14 September 2011. Tags: bureaucrats, cigarettes, individual rights, private property, smoker rights, smoking
by Jesse Kline A group of Michigan bar owners are fed up with the government telling them what they can and cannot do on their own property, so they’ve decided to introduce a ban of their own — by barring state legislators from their establishments. In May of 2010, Michigan followed the lead of many other jurisdictions [...]
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Posted in Featured, General, Health Care, Private Property